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...learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses to open the door for a woman, is he sexually liberated? Or just an ill-bred slob...
American manners will never again rise to the whale-boned grandeur that they achieved in the imagination of Emily Post, if not always in the reality of her time. A sampling of Emily's instructions to the well bred...
...intermission bred change. Gains replaced losses. Yardage took over for misexecution. Overthrows became forgotten mishaps. And Harvard defeated Dartmouth in football...
...presidential selection process, said the close observer, weeds out people who have "normal emotions and normal reactions to situations." Therefore we end up with "single-dimension, single-purpose, carefully bred, genetically selected creatures." The forum was PBS's Dick Cavett Show, the observer was John Ehrlichman, and the creature who prompted his comment was his former boss Richard Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee...
...last Friday night, when I found myself in such a situation, I was forced to head out Storrow drive and seek peace at the International House of Pancakes. Chauffered by my New-Jersey-bred roomate we arrived at about two in the morning...